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...expert horseman and polo player, and a guitarist with a minor but determined talent, Peter Hurd looks, talks and dresses like a genial cowboy, is thoroughly the cow-country man no matter where he sets up his easel. A hard worker but a gregarious man and a sharp observer, he spends his few spare hours reading and studying astronomy with the help of a home-built telescope. "What motivates me." he says, "is a constant wonder. It's hard to tell anyone just how painting can be a religious experience, but it is with...
...throw a rosy gleam over the Parthenon. Most of all, he likes to browse through the Athens Archaeological Museum, where he invariably stops before a bronze statue, by an unknown Greek sculptor of the 3rd Century B.C., which seems to symbolize his own character and task. It represents a horseman leaning forward on his steed, "With Will...
...California's Santa Anita, richest and most prosperous of all, attendance in the first 20 days of the winter season was down 24.4% from last year (partly as a result of bad weather); betting had slumped $10,459,016. Said one horseman last week, casting a cold eye over the thin turnout: "This is more like it. Racing was getting to be a honky-tonk-too many people...
Spaewife was pinned to the mare, and eventually she was bred to an Australian stallion. Six years ago, a weedy yearling-reportedly one of her descendants-was led into an auction ring and knocked down for ?400. That was how Peter Riddle, a veteran Australian horseman, came by Shannon...
...Olympics, Maestro Mariles was easily the best horseman of the prize-winning Mexicans. In Manhattan last week, he won the West Point Challenge Trophy on his pet 18-year-old jumper, Resorte. He rode a horse like a champion -without seeming to work at it. The big secret of Mexican riding is controlling the horse's movements almost entirely through the rider's legs-not his hands. Says Mariles: "The motor of the horse is in back, not in front. A horse is not an automobile; you don't drive him by his nose...